Delhi reports highest magnitude of risks for males and Chennai for females in all cancers combined during childhood period. Significant increase in trends of childhood cancer risk detected for all sites combined in Chennai for males and in Mumbai for females. The trends observed may likely to give an insight into further understanding of childhood cancer etiology. L Satyanarayana, Smita Asthana...

The interest in congenital malformations increases when the infant mortality rate declines. When the preventable cases decline and form only a small part of the total infant mortality, attention is directed towards the remaining hard-core of infant mortality. At this stage, congenital malformations (CM), which are still to a certain degree a terra incognita, gain in importance and are rated at ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to document the reasons of perinatal deaths in a large autopsy series performed in our institute, which is a reference center in the Çukurova region of Turkey. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study included 2150 autopsies performed between January 2000 and December 2012 at our institute. Diagnoses were categorized according to the detected pathologies; congenital malformations were...

BACKGROUND Most twins after assisted reproductive technology (ART) are dizygotic. Analysis of dizygotic twin pairs is useful in assessing familial aggregation in the development of birth defects. METHODS Using nationwide post-ART data from the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, recurrence risk ratios (RRRs)-defined as probandwise concordance rates of birth defects in twins divided by...